A special edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace bypass & his best friend has just announced that he's an alien At this moment they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels & an innocuous-looking book inscribed in large friendly letters with the words DON'T PANICAn international phenomenon & a pop-culture classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show TV series stage play comic book & film & is a work of true comic genius It was the first Pan Original to sell more than one million copies